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Natural hazards and their effects on agricultural development: Case of the Republic of Moldova

Author(s) -

Dmitrii Parmacli,

Tatiana Staicova

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

journal of the geographical institute jovan cvijic sasa

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.16

H-Index - 2

eISSN - 1821-2808

pISSN - 0350-7599

DOI - 10.2298/ijgi1303313p

Subject(s) - agriculture , seeding , storm , frost (temperature) , yield (engineering) , environmental science , agricultural productivity , natural disaster , geography , agroforestry , environmental protection , agronomy , meteorology , biology , archaeology , materials science , metallurgy

The article describes the most frequent unfavorable natural phenomena in the Republic of Moldova, such as drought, hot dry-winds and strong winds, dust storms, hail, frost, glaze ice, invasion of sod webworms and others. Additionally it presents a number of methods for reduction of their damaging influence on the results of agricultural activity. The article showcases the devastating effect of webworms on the seeding of agricultural crop yield in 1975 and the coping measures undertaken in those years. In 2003, as a result of an unusual combination of natural and climate factors, a great damage was done to the seeding of agricultural crops. Similarly, abnormal heat during the summer of 2007 caused a disastrously low crop yield on the territory of the republic

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